thriller with substance

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2003)

28 Days Later saw me leaving the theatre shaking and thinking "simply, wow." Filming it in digital video gave it a real raw ambience, rather than the sort of fake, aesthetic look of traditional celluloid. Quite frankly, this movie just chilled the bejesus out of me.
The storyline goes way beyond a simple rage-against-the-zombie movie... I could feel myself in the Jim's shoes waking up to a devastated London where danger lurks everywhere. Selena's cold-hearted approach to survival really struck me as uber-realistic; the movie really brings out the different facets of humanity that are bound to surface should something this intense ever happen to the world.
It's not a horror flick designed to touch your basic human reactions, but rather to prod your intellect and your own sense of order; one could easily question the soldiers in the movie, and yet agree with them at the same time. If I ever wanted to feel the lawlessness, that fear of noone in position of authority to bail me out of a crisis, this movie was more than happy to give me a taste.
Definately a grade-A thriller. The British have got turning their country into a wasteland on film down pat. See it for a really different shock experience.